Device for straightening, storing and coating pictures



Nov. 24, 1964 J- TRAUTINGER 3,158,078

. DEVICE FOR STRAIGHTENING, STORING AND COATING PICTURES Filed May 8,1962 1/ Juli/m 71m ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,158,678 DEVHZE FURSTRAIGHTENENG, STORTNG AND CDATHIQG FIGIURES John Trautinger, 355 E.Eleanor se, Phiiadelphia, Ia. Fiied May S, 1962, Ser. No. 195,361 1Ciaim. (tit. 95-160) Where pictures are developed in self-developingcameras, they often are wrinkled or rolled, and the object of thisinvention is to devise novel means for straightening, storing andcoating such pictures.

A further object is to devise a novel case or container having atopposite sides and near one end guide flanges leading to and along abottom strip disposed at an angle to the flange carrying side, saidstrip being at an angle of not more than forty-five degrees with theadjacent side of the container.

A further object is to provide a clasp having a swivelled connectionwith a side of the container to provide for securing the container tothe shirt or coat of the user.

With the foregoing and other objects in view as will hereinafter clearlyappear, my invention comprehends a novel construction and arrangement ofa container having means to straighten wrinkled or partially rolledpictures, provided with storage means and with means for holding apicture during a coating operation.

For the purpose of illustrating the invention, I have shown in theaccompanying drawings a preferred embodiment which I have found inpractice to give satisfactory and reliable results. It is, however, tobe understood that the various instrumentalities of which the inventionconsists can be variously arranged and organized, and the invention isnot limited, except by the scope of the ap pended claims, to the exactarrangement and organization of these instrumentalities as herein setforth.

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a device for straightening, storingand coating pictures, embodying my invention.

FIGURE 2 is a perspective view showing the manner of straightening apicture.

FIGURE 3 is a side elevation of FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 4 is a top plan view.

FIGURE 5 is a side elevation showing more particularly the claspswivelled to a wall of the container.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings:

The front and rear walls of the container are formed by folding a sheetof material upon itself to provide a rear wall 1 having an angle bend atthe bottom as at 2 of not more than forty-five degrees. The angle strip2 merges into a flat strip 3 which in turn merges into an angle strip 4connected with the front side 5. The angle strip 4 provides twostraightening edges, one where it merges with the front wall 5 and thesecond where it 3,158,978 Fatenteol Nov. 24, 1964 merges with the flatstrip 3. The side walls 6 and 7 are corrugated and secured to the frontand rear walls.

Guides 8 for the picture are in the form of angle strips secured to thside walls at their bottom portions and to the angle strip 4 and curveinwardly and laterally to terminate opposite the lower end of anglestrip 4.

The rear wall 1 is preferably longer than the front wall 5, and near itsupper end a clasp 9 is secured by a swivel connection It). 11 indicatesa picture to be drawn between the open flange portions of the guides 8and the front wall 5 and strip 4.

The wall 4 of the bottom of the container is at an angle of not morethan forty five degrees, and the guides 8 extend along the sides of suchbottom.

Pictures developed in self-developing cameras often are partially rolledor in a wrinkled condition, and it is desirable to straighten andflatten them before storage, or coating.

A picture 11 is drawn downwardly between the flanges of the guides 8 andthe front wall of the container and also over the bottom flange 4. Thisoperation flattens and straightens the pictures which can then be storedin the container in spaced condition due to the corrugated side walls ofthe container.

If the picture is to be coated, it is clamped on the rear wall and thecoating material applied to it.

The container can be carried in the pocket or suspended on the clothingof the user as is apparent by turning the clasp on its swivel.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

A device for straightening film, comprising a container having a frontwall merging at its bottom into a first strip extending inwardly anddownwardly and merging into a flat portion, said flat portion merginginto a second angle strip merging into the rear wall of the container,film guides secured in spaced relationship on said front wall andcurving downwardly and inwardly over said angle strip to terminate inproximity to said flat portion, whereby two straightening edges areprovided, one where the front wall merges with the first angle strip andone where the first angle strip merges into said flat portion.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 757,596 4/04Bushnell 129-43 917,679 4/09 Strassel 12943 1,580,496 4/ 26 Kelly -100XR 1,719,950 7/29 Waggener 118-503 2,829,767 4/ 5 8 Scripture 129432,969,766 1/61 Distel et a1. 2,994,298 8/ 61 Thomas 118-500 2,994,9028/61 Reed 15268 RICHARD D. NEVIUS, Primary Examiner.

